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| | Towards a global understanding 189
The programme launched in Berne this week to understand the changing environment for human beings on the surface of the Earth is laudable, but needs strong management.
doi:10.1038/323189a0
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| | Strategic arms meeting 190
The need for general discussion on control agreements.
doi:10.1038/323190a0
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| | Wall Street jitters 190
Last week's slump does not presage another Great Crash, but the need to get rid of US deficits.
doi:10.1038/323190b0
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| | Environmental pollution: UK denies responsibility for Scandinavian acid rain 191
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/323191a0
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| | From Newton to Rutherford: British scientists in oils 192
doi:10.1038/323192a0
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| | US budget: Boom time for health research 192
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/323192b0
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| | Errata: No change in party 192
doi:10.1038/323192c0
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| | Tropical rain forests: Ecologists unite for diversity 193
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/323193a0
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| | Japan finally says yes to Star Wars proposals 193
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/323193b0
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| | Indian Science: Visa row threatens conferences 194
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/323194a0
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| | Appeal launched for Soviet biologist 194
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/323194b0
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| | Comet coming 194
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323194c0
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| | Uranium export: Australia puts idealism aside 195
Charles Morgan
doi:10.1038/323195a0
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| | European space programme: Germany plans a space plane 195
Jürgen Neffe
doi:10.1038/323195b0
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| | New materials: Japan set to come out winner 196
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/323196a0
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| | Resignation provokes criticism 196
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/323196b0
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| | Nuclear power: Accident close to the border 196
Claus P. Dechau
doi:10.1038/323196c0
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| | Space probes: Planetary tour for Galileo 197
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323197a0
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| | Biotechnology: Genetic engineering minus glamour 197
Karen Wright
doi:10.1038/323197b0
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| | Fluoride, immunity and tooth decay 198
GEOFFREY E. SMITH
doi:10.1038/323198a0
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| | Fluoride, immunity and tooth decay 198
FRANCIS B. REED
doi:10.1038/323198b0
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| | Classical caries 198
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/323198c0
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| | Prelude to space 198
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
doi:10.1038/323198d0
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J.M. RITTER & G.W. TAYLOR
doi:10.1038/323198e0
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| | Poe's universes 198
E.R. VAN SLOOTEN
doi:10.1038/323198f0
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| | Helices with optical activity 199
A neat conformation of a neat prediction points to more problems in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. In what direction do we turn now?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/323199a0
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| | Environment research: Is lead pollution of the atmosphere a global problem? 200
David A. Peel
doi:10.1038/323200a0
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| | Perception: Vision in humans and computers 201
Oliver Braddick
doi:10.1038/323201a0
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| | Crystal growth: From multi-branched snowflakes to precious minerals 202
Herbert E. Huppert
doi:10.1038/323202a0
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| | Lectin biochemistry: New way of protein maturation 203
Nathan Sharon & Halina Lis
doi:10.1038/323203a0
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| | Classical mechanics: Tops that like to spin one way 204
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/323204a0
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| | Neurobiology: Dopamine receptor disputes 205
J. M. Palacios
doi:10.1038/323205a0
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| | Parasitology: Improving prospects for a schistosomiasis vaccine 205
S.R. Smithers
doi:10.1038/323205b0
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| | Geophysics: Causes of heating on the San Andreas fault 206
Roger N. Anderson
doi:10.1038/323206a0
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| | Marine biology: Biological activity and seabed sediment structure 207
P.S. Meadows
doi:10.1038/323207a0
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| | Dragon's exhalations give clue to Chernobyl 208
R. H. FLOWERS
doi:10.1038/323208a0
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| | Decontamination puts meat in a pickle 208
R. WAHL & E. KALLEE
doi:10.1038/323208b0
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| | Body in the bog but no DNA 208
MARGARET A. HUGHES, DAVID S. JONES & ROBERT C. CONNOLLY
doi:10.1038/323208c0
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| | Out of Africa — through a genetic bottleneck 208
DAVID M. HILLIS
doi:10.1038/323208d0
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| | The gift of Taungs 209
Andrew Hill reviews Hominid Evolution: Past, Present and Future
Edited by
P. V. Tobias and Major Topics in Primate and Human Evolution
Edited by
B. L. P. WoodMartinAndrews and Primate Evolution and Human Origins
Edited by
R. L. J. G. CiochonFleagle
doi:10.1038/323209a0
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| | Together through history 210
Juliet Clutton-Brock reviews In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human−Animal Relationships
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James Serpell
doi:10.1038/323210a0
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| | Stellar challenge 210
Eugene N. Parker reviews Physics of the Sun
Edited by
P. A. T.E. D.M. R.K. Stur-rockHolzerMihalasUlrich
doi:10.1038/323210b0
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| | Picture histology 211
Nancy J. Lane reviews A Colour Atlas of Insect Tissues via the Flea
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Miriam Yosef Susumo RothschildSchleinIto
doi:10.1038/323211a0
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| | Picture histology 211
D. A. McMillan Jr
doi:10.1038/323211b0
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| | Physics and Homi Bhabha 212
Rudolf Peierls reviews Homi Jehangir Bhabha: Collected Scientific Papers
Edited by
B. V. Virendra B.M. SreekantanSinghUdgaonkar
doi:10.1038/323212a0
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| | Scanning standard 212
V.E. Cosslett reviews Scanning Electron Microscopy: Physics of Image Formation and Microanalysis
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Ludwig Reimer
doi:10.1038/323212b0
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| | National security and the post-war science establishment in the United States 213
Since 1940 science policy in the United States has been set within the framework of an unwritten constitution that allows flexible responses to be made through advice from the scientific community. Recent developments under the Reagan administration suggest this system is foundering.
A. Hunter Dupree
doi:10.1038/323213a0
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| | Role of the cerebellum in the visual guidance of movement 217
J. F. Stein
doi:10.1038/323217a0
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| | Lead concentration changes in Antarctic ice during the Wisconsin/Holocene transition 222
Claude F. Boutron & Clair C. Patterson
doi:10.1038/323222a0
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| | Structure of the receptor for platelet-derived growth factor helps define a family of closely related growth factor receptors 226
Y. Yarden, J. A. Escobedo, W-J. Kuang, T. L. Yang-Feng, T. O. Daniel, P. M. Tremble, E. Y. Chen, M. E. Ando, R. N. Harkins, U. Francke, V. A. Fried, A. Ullrich & L. T. Williams
doi:10.1038/323226a0
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| | Infrared point sources aligned with the SgrA* non-thermal radio source 232
W. A. Stein & W. J. Forrest
doi:10.1038/323232a0
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| | New determination of the angular diameter of Sirius 234
John Davis & William J. Tango
doi:10.1038/323234a0
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| | The excitation and damping of solar oscillations 235
K. G. Libbrecht, B. D. Popp, J. M. Kaufman & M. J. Penn
doi:10.1038/323235a0
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| | Rossby autosoliton and stationary model of the jovian Great Red Spot 238
S. V. Antipov, M. V. Nezlin, E. N. Snezhkin & A. S. Trubnikov
doi:10.1038/323238a0
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| | Product yield of magnetic-field-dependent photochemical reaction modulated by electron spin resonance 240
Masaharu Okazaki & Takeshi Shiga
doi:10.1038/323240a0
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| | Estimation of oceanic eddy transports from satellite altimetry 243
Greg Holloway
doi:10.1038/323243a0
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| | Empirical relation between sulphur dioxide emissions and acid deposition derived from monthly data 245
Charles B. Epstein & Michael Oppenheimer
doi:10.1038/323245a0
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| | Late-glacial climatic oscillation in Atlantic Canada equivalent to the Allerød/younger Dryas event 247
Robert J. Mott, Douglas R. Grant, Ralph Stea & Serge Occhietti
doi:10.1038/323247a0
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In situ studies of megafaunal mounds indicate rapid sediment turnover and community response at the deep-sea floor 251
Craig R. Smith, Peter A. Jumars & David J. DeMaster
doi:10.1038/323251a0
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| | End-Cretaceous devastation of terrestrial flora in the boreal Far East 253
Tsunemasa Saito, Tohru Yamanoi & Kunio Kaiho
doi:10.1038/323253a0
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| | Spatial heterogeneity: evolved behaviour or mathematical artefact? 255
John A. Downing
doi:10.1038/323255a0
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| | Inhibition of microbial activity in marine sediments by a bromophenol from a hemichordate 257
Gary M. King
doi:10.1038/323257a0
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| | Immunization of Aotus monkeys with recombinant proteins of an erythrocyte surface antigen of Plasmodium falciparum
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William E. Collins, Robin F. Anders, Marguerite Pappaioanou, Gary H. Campbell, Graham V. Brown, David J. Kemp, Ross L. Coppel, Jimmie C. Skinner, Patricia M. Andrysiak, Jenny M. Favaloro, Lynn M. Corcoran, J. Roger Broderson, Graham F. Mitchell & Carlos C. Campbell
doi:10.1038/323259a0
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| | Two antigen-independent adhesion pathways used by human cytotoxic T-cell clones 262
Stephen Shaw, Gale E. Ginther Luce, Ralph Quinones, Ronald E. Gress, Timothy A. Springer & Martin E. Sanders
doi:10.1038/323262a0
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| | Substrate phosphoprotein availability regulates eclosion hormone sensitivity in an insect CNS 264
David B. Morton & James W. Truman
doi:10.1038/323264a0
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| | Localization of D-2 dopamine receptors to intrinsic striatal neurones by quantitative autoradiography 267
Joel M. Trugman, William A. Geary II & G. Frederick Wooten
doi:10.1038/323267a0
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| | Single-channel and whole-cell recordings of mitogen-regulated inward currents in human cloned helper T lymphocytes 269
Miyuki Kuno, Jorg Goronzy, Cornelia M. Weyand & Phyllis Gardner
doi:10.1038/323269a0
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| | Opposite effects of cyclic GMP and cyclic AMP on Ca2+ current in single heart cells 273
H. Criss Hartzell & Rodolphe Fischmeister
doi:10.1038/323273a0
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| | Weak acids may act as teratogens by accumulating in the basic milieu of the early mammalian embryo 276
Heinz Nau & William J. Scott Jr
doi:10.1038/323276a0
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| | Maternal control of Drosophila segmentation gene expression 278
Sean B. Carroll, Gary M. Winslow, Trudi Schüpbach & Matthew P. Scott
doi:10.1038/323278a0
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